The Treaty
The Houthis declared a blockade of Saudi shipping in the Red Sea and vowed a siege-for-siege policy, just as Riyadh reportedly reroutes most of...
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The Treaty
Neither side can force the other to fold, and neither is talking directly anymore. Iran has survived two rounds of maximum pressure already. Meanwhile...
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Trump calls it a chess game and says he's only semi-negotiating. Meanwhile the demands Iran once reserved for nuclear talks are attached to the...
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Withdraw the forces, lift the blockade, drop the sanctions, release the frozen assets, pay for the damage, and stop the threats. That's Tehran's price....
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Washington says it will lift the blockade and let Iran sell oil again. Tehran's foreign minister says that still isn't enough to open the...
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The war was pitched as four days to five weeks. Six months later, Hormuz is still closed, the Houthis hold Bab el-Mandeb, and Iran's...
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Oil traders aren't celebrating yet — the last agreement collapsed within weeks. This one reportedly gives Iran a level of control over the world's...
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American nonproliferation policy treats the spread of nuclear weapons as uniformly destabilising. A body of scholarship associated with Kenneth Waltz and Christopher Layne holds...
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Steve Balestrieri reports that Trump wants an Iran-Oman deal on the strait within a day, warning of what he calls decapitation strikes and describing...
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Dr. Andrew Latham argues the Oman-Iran corridor taking shape is an off-ramp Trump can take — but not the settlement he described. Baghaei's own...